Secondary demat account at Zerodha

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A secondary demat account at Zerodha is a second demat account opened under the same Zerodha trading account and login, used to ring-fence long-term holdings from active trading positions. It is offered to resident individuals only, opens free of cost online when Aadhaar is linked to the registered mobile number, and carries its own annual maintenance charge of Rs 300 plus 18 per cent GST separate from the primary account.

The account solves a specific problem: separating the shares an investor intends to hold for years from the shares they trade. Holdings parked in the secondary account do not appear on the Kite trading platform and are visible only on Zerodha Console , so they sit outside the day-to-day order screen. Selling from the secondary account is not possible until the shares are transferred back to the primary, a step that takes about 24 hours.

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Secondary demat account at Zerodha